Interest Rates, Corporate Bonds, and Mortgage-Backed Securities

Free GARP FRM Part I lesson in Financial Markets and Products. 21 min read, ~3,194 words.

Compounding conversion:. Continuous and discrete give the same PV but different rate quotes. Duration: Macaulay (weighted-avg time), Modified = Mac / (1 + y/m), Dollar = Modified × Price.. Convexity: second-order term. Improves the linear duration estimate:. Term structure theories: expectations, liquidity preference (term premium), market segmentation, preferred habitat. MBS...

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